Tried installing Wary 5.5 on an older XP laptop and just ended up with a black screen with a lot of code. Seems every version of PL has a different install procedure. I've never found any of the instructions in this forum of any use. Why doesn't this distro just have an easy installer like Ubuntu or Linux Mint. Such a pain.

Tried installing Wary 5.5 on an older XP laptop and just ended up with a black screen with a lot of code. Seems every version of PL has a different install procedure. I've never found any of the instructions in this forum of any use. Why doesn't this distro just have an easy installer like Ubuntu or Linux Mint. Such a pain.

What kind of install?

I run all "frugal" installs. I boot from disk a couple times, as I get things tuned up. Then I run the universal installer (from Menu >> Setup). I'm using Lupu 5.28, and I am assuming that Wary looks the same (all of the other versions of Puppy that I've used looked the same)

This, of course, doesn't install the grub -- but it tells you how to modify your grub file.

Now, with a folder containing the Puppy setup, with all the required files, I then...

Maybe the graphic card drivers are missing.
Try the Vesa option next time you boot

You should tell us more details on the grub menu.lst you use.

I trust that all installs are hard if the hard ware and the software
don't find each other. But if they do and one have done frugal install
before then it is super easy to do new installs. I do such within 5 minutes
and I am a total noob. I fail with most things in life

so if one don't know and the hardware and software don't mix well
them maybe it is very difficult but if things fit each other then it is super easy._________________I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though

The pain in the ass is lately I've been hankering to try Mint. It does not work so nicely. Puppy is so easy to install that I have forgotten how to make mint or other less easy linuxes install frugally for testing, and using the authoritarian install programs that come with Mint et al will try and delete my grub and maybe my puppies too.

I will stick with Puppy for now, for its absolute ease of installation.

I've never found any of the instructions in this forum of any use. Why doesn't this distro just have an easy installer like Ubuntu or Linux Mint. Such a pain.

After 300 posts and more than 6 years you still keep asking the same questions, provide no feedback and ignore all the help extended to you. You are incredibly ignorant.!

Do you think calling someone ignorant is any better??????

that is an abusive comment ok his feedback and comments at times are probably may be annoying to you but that doesn't mean you have to contribute to some of the negative terrible things that are going on in the forums at the moment. just ignore him.

It really depresses me to see stuff like this in the forums and to have been subjected to some abusive comments myself.

what would a newcomer to these forums think???????

Please for the sake of the open source communtity think before you post..

Tried installing Wary 5.5 on an older XP laptop and just ended up with a black screen with a lot of code.

I also had troubles running frugal Wary on Toshiba Satellite. I guess the problem is missing driver.
Try Lupu or Fluppy and if you ask me - forget full install and use only frugal. It is really mistake-proof way of running puppy.
I prefer to install grub from old version of GeeXBox. It takes only 8 Mb space and gives me opportunity to play videos directly from GeeXBox. It needs less resources which is important for old computers.

What kind of laptop (specs included) and what type of install (details included)

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Why doesn't this distro just have an easy installer like Ubuntu or Linux Mint.

Well for starters, A frugal install is not possible with those distros. I know Slax and AntiX are some of the few capable of this and you would not find the install features friendly either in those distros probably if comparing to Mint or Ubuntu.

By the way. The software was free or am I wrong and you paid for Puppy Linux?
If so. Go to the person you bought it from and complain you want your money back.

Nice to know the old Lin'N'Win is still being used. Of course, once the process is done once it is easy to install all sorts of Pups afterwards.

One thing I would say if you have lots of trouble installing. Try the Puppy on CD first to make sure your problem is not with your hardware, particularly the video if you are getting blank screens. If your hardware is the problem then installing is going to be very hard.

Puppy used to have lots of trouble with Toshiba laptops - don't know why - but it caused Caitlin Martin, a well known Linux reviewer, to say bad things about Puppy all the time.

Puppy 5.2.8.x will not work on PCs with the latest Intel video chips.

If you know your hardware works with the Pup you are trying to install then I would recommend a frugal install via Lin'N'Win or the Windows Installer from Noryb that uses the same technique but is automatic.

There are others here who swear by full installs so I will leave it to them to sort out problems with full installations.

Nice to know the old Lin'N'Win is still being used. Of course, once the process is done once it is easy to install all sorts of Pups afterwards.

I love the Lin 'N Win system!! It always makes me nervous mucking around with a working boot sector... (e.g. installing grub).

I do the mods entirely from Puppy (I boot from CD, "install" in a folder, then edit the files required).

I haven't tried it on my Win7 system... I was just reading up on it, and it makes me nervous... I will likely do a HDD backup (clonezilla) before trying it - then I can restore if I goof up.

The last several times I put grub on a machine, I used a Debian live boot disk to do it. I let it pretend that I'm going to install Debian (you have to actually install a minimal system), then use the grub and menu.lst that it creates, to hook in my Puppy (or other systems). I've had good luck with Debian -- I haven't had it mess up an existing bootable system...

I had a 4GB SD laying around, so that's mine (not very fast to shut down, however).

I'm thinking about trying to boot from the SD, but point to a folder on my HDD... (i.e. see if I can make the HDD "home", while booting from the SD -- should be possible, as soon as I get ambitious enough to poke at it). That would cure the slow shutdown problem.

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jacatone may have had a Holloween hangover when he posted. My head is killing me
from all the mixed candy and beer. So I can sympathize/empathize if that is the case.

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